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Facebook out to buy solar drone maker: report
Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)
Facebook is in talks to buy a solar-powered drone startup in what could lead to making wireless Internet available in regions without online access, according t...
Northrop Grumman's Common Imagery Processor Deploys To Support Global Hawk Block 40
Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman's Common Imagery Processor (CIP) has taken another important step in supporting the Global Hawk Block 40 Unmanned Aircraft System by deploying ...
Dutch scientists flap to the future with 'insect' drone
Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)
Dutch scientists have developed the world's smallest autonomous flapping drone, a dragonfly-like beast with 3-D vision that could revolutionise our experience o...
Killer robot drones are like drugs: regulate, but resist the urge to ban them
Feb 23, 2014 (TCM)
BAE Systems has revealed that it has successfully test-flown Taranis, its prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The test has some people understandably hot under t...
Bats inspire 'micro air vehicle' designs
Feb 23, 2014 (SPX)
By exploring how creatures in nature are able to fly by flapping their wings, Virginia Tech researchers hope to apply that knowledge toward designing small flyi...
Lockheed Martin Team Surpasses Millionth Hour of In-Theater Airborne Surveillance
Feb 23, 2014 (SPX)
The Lockheed Martin built and maintained Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) has surpassed 1 million airborne mission hours of providing around-the-clock,...
Lockheed Martin Receives Contract For SMSS-KMAX Cooperative Teaming Demo
Feb 23, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin received a contract from the U.S. Army Robotics Technology Consortium to conduct a fully autonomous reconnaissance, surveillance and target acqu...
US drones violate Pakistan sovereignty
Feb 20, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The United Sates is planning to transform airbases in Central Asia to perform drone attacks in Pakistan. High consideration is being given to this in context of...
Israel unveils Super Heron MALE drone
Feb 19, 2014 (XNX)
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on Tuesday unveiled the newest "Super Heron" drone at the Singapore Air Show, an aircraft that "redefines" Medium-Altitude Lon...
Journalism use of drones may get prohibited as well as commercial
Feb 19, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing new rules of using drones and is launching several investigations on the drones following the recent ...
Meet ARES: DARPA's newest transformer-style drones under development
Feb 19, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DAPRA, presented concept images of its scheme to pair up the US military with modular drones n...
MQ-8C Fire Scout Completes First Flight
Feb 17, 2014 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy successfully flew the second MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for the first time. Conducted at Naval Base Ventura County,...
Small drones hit US regulatory turbulence
Feb 14, 2014 (AFP)
Hovering like mechanical sparrows over a windswept Maryland field on a bright Saturday afternoon, small drones seem harmless -- but they are at the center of an...
ARCA is developing a high performance unmanned aerial vehicle
Feb 13, 2014 (SPX)
The aircraft is named Air Strato and is part of a larger UAV family that will carry out various missions for ARCA and our partners. The first prototype is compl...
LockMart and AeroVironment Eye Joint Opportunities in UAV Markets
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
AeroVironment and the Lockheed Martin have announced an agreement to jointly pursue opportunities in unmanned aircraft system (UAS) development. "At Lockheed Ma...
US prepares for cyber warfare with mass production of 3D-printed drones
Feb 04, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Cyber warfare tools, guided munitions, and mass production of 3D-printed, automated drones are future military technologies that the US will be focusing on in t...
Maritime Surveillance UAV Surpasses 10,000 Combat Hours
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
The Northrop Grumman built unmanned demonstrator aircraft used for maritime surveillance missions by the U.S. Navy surpassed 10,000 combat flying hours supporti...
AUVSI Encourages FAA to Allow Limited Small UAS Operations
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) has sent a letter to the FAA encouraging the agency to allow limited unmanned aircraft system...
Paul Newman - A Diplomatic Physicist
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
Chief Scientist for Atmospheres, Paul Newman, is the most diplomatic scientist at Goddard. He is one of four co-chairs to the United Nations Science Panel for t...
UK, France tighten defence ties with drone and missile projects
Jan 31, 2014 (AFP)
Britain and France brought their defence cooperation closer on Friday, announcing joint projects to build combat drones and unmanned anti-mine vehicles. British...
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